Definition of gymnasium

1 a: a large room used for various indoor sports (such as basketball or boxing) and usually equipped with gymnastic apparatus

b: a building (as on a college campus) containing space and equipment for various indoor sports activities and usually including spectator accommodations, locker and shower rooms, offices, classrooms, and a swimming pool

2

[German, from Latin, school]

: a European secondary school that prepares students for the university

During a halftime ceremony renaming the upper gymnasium at New Berlin Eisenhower after David Scheidegger, athletic director Kevin Fitzgerald had the longtime boys basketball coach of the Lions take his seat on the end of the bench.

The nonprofit organization is collecting donations in hopes of raising enough money to purchase a trauma kit for every classroom, auditorium and gymnasium in the Pewaukee School District, a post on its website said.

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Origin and Etymology of gymnasium

Latin, exercise ground, school, from Greek gymnasion, from gymnazein to exercise naked, from gymnos naked — more at naked